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'{{unfocused|date=November 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}} '''John Geree ({{circa|1600}} – February, 1649) was an English [[Puritan]] clergyman preacher, and author of several tracts engaging in theological and political issues of the day, who was silenced for nonconformism but later reinstated. His elder brother''' '''Stephen Geree (1594-1665), also a Puritan minister and author, maintained his ministry through the Commonwealth and Restoration in Surrey.<ref>K. Gibson, 'Geree, John (1599/1600–1649), Church of England clergyman, also including Stephen Geree (1593/4–1664)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. A. Gibson, 'Geree, John (1601?–1649), puritan divine', ''Dictionary of National Biography'', 1885-1900, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Geree,_John_(DNB00) Volume 21.]</ref><ref>B. Brook, ''Lives of the Puritans'' 3 Vols (James Black, London 1813), III, [https://archive.org/stream/livespuritansco02broogoog#page/n272/mode/2up pp. 102 & 265.]</ref> John Geree wasn't pleased with how where he was how they didn't accept peoples religion.<ref>{{Citation|title=Massachusetts Bay Colony|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chlGDdUQKCE|language=en|access-date=2021-09-14}}</ref> John Geree was silenced because he was standing up for other peoples religion. John Geree believed that people should hae there own religion and not just one religion. He thought that they should celebrate all religion and not just one.''' ==Origins and education== '''Stephen and John Geree were born in Yorkshire, and studied at [[Magdalen Hall, Oxford]]. Stephen, the elder, became a student there in 1611, aged 17, and went through the courses in Logic and Philosophy, taking B.A. in 1615.<ref>Anthony a Wood, ''Athenae Oxonienses'' (Printed for Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Churchyard, London 1692), II, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IWxLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 132.]</ref> He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Bath and Wells in March 1616, and priest by the Bishop of Llandaff in December 1623.<ref>CCEd, Person ID: 69582. Appointment Record ID: 249668.</ref> John entered the college in 1615, aged 14, either as batler or servitor. He graduated B.A. on 27 January 1619, and took his M.A. on 12 June 1621, the same day on which [[John Tombes]] took his B.A. from the same college.<ref>''Athenae Oxonienses'', I, 838–39; II, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IWxLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false pp.64–65.]</ref>''' ==John Geree== '''John Geree made an early appearance in print in 1625, with a dedicatory epistle to the collected lectures of [[William Pemble]] of Magdalen Hall, published after his death as ''Vindiciae Fidei: A Treatise of Justification by Faith''.<ref>([[Richard Capel]]), ''Vindiciae fidei, or A treatise of iustification by faith: wherein that point is fully cleared, and vindicated from the cavils of its adversaries. Delivered in certaine lectures at Magdalen Hall in Oxford, by William Pemble, Master of Arts of the same house: and now published since his death for the publique benefit'' (Printed by Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, for Edward Forrest, Oxford 1625). Read full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A09274.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Umich/eebo] (open).</ref> In November 1627 he was licensed as a preacher throughout the dioceses of London, Gloucester and Worcester, and as preacher and curate in [[Tewkesbury]], [[Gloucestershire]].<ref>CCEd Person ID: 69581.</ref> In 1629 he published at Oxford ''A Catechisme'' concerning the Lord's Supper. For refusal to conform to ceremonies of the Church of England he was silenced by [[Godfrey Goodman]], [[Bishop of Gloucester]], and was reduced to living 'by the helps of his brethren.'<ref>''Athenae Oxonienses'', II, pp. 64-65.</ref> However, during the later 1630s he continued to defy the suspension in Tewkesbury, and by 1641 he had an enthusiastic following there.<ref>D.C. Beaver, ''Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690'' (Harvard University Press, 2009), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zy2pDTQSBK4C&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=Geary#v=onepage&q=Geary&f=false pp. 179-92] (Google preview).</ref>''' '''In 1641 he was restored to his cure by the [[Committee for Plundered Ministers]].<ref>''Athenae Oxonienses'', II, p. 64.</ref> From this date his sermons or tracts recommence, beginning with ''The Down-Fall of Anti-Christ'', dedicated to the Committee itself, and ''Judah's Joy at the Oath'', a sermon celebrating the [[Protestation Returns of 1641–1642|Parliamentary Covenant]], but finding unsoundness in [[Henry Burton (theologian)|Henry Burton]]'s interpretation of it. In the following year he preached by authority at a public fast on behalf of Ireland (a sermon printed in Dublin and London), and in 1644 published ''Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ'', a treatise showing the need for reform and the ejection of scandalous ministers, but maintaining that reformed ministry need not entail separation from the [[Church of England]]. It affirmed the principle of [[Infant baptism#Theology|infant baptism]].''' '''With these credentials he was proposed, examined, and appointed to officiate the Cure of [[St Albans]] in [[Hertfordshire]] early in 1645/6,<ref>W. Urwick, ''Nonconformity in Herts: Being Lectures upon the Nonconforming Worthies of St Albans'' (Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd., London 1884), [https://archive.org/stream/nonconformityin01urwigoog#page/n146/mode/2up pp. 131-34.]</ref> and his ''The Character of an Old English Puritane, or Non-Conformist'' appeared in 1646.<ref>For the text of this work, see [http://www.reformedreader.org/character_of_an_old_english_puri.htm The Reformed Reader website.]</ref> The [[Baptist]] movement was very active in north-western Hertfordshire: Geree's ''Vindiciae Paedo-Baptismi'' and ''Vindiciae Vindiciarum'' (dedicated to the Mayor and Burgesses of St Albans) were directed against the arguments of his former fellow-student [[John Tombes]] (whom he calls his 'ancient friend'), and of Edward Harrison of [[Kensworth]], who was effectively founder of the St Albans Baptists.<ref>W.T. Whitley, 'Edward Harrison of Petty France', ''The Baptist Quarterly'' VII no. 5, [http://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/bq/07-5_214.pdf pp. 214-20]; D.G. Turner, 'The Origins of St Albans Baptists', ''The Baptist Quarterly'' XXXVII no. 8, [http://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/bq/37-8_402.pdf pp. 402-09.]</ref> Their belief was that the [[sacrament]] of baptism should be accorded only to those of age and understanding to be able to confess their faith. A determined opponent of [[Episcopacy]], in 1646 he also published ''A Case of Conscience Resolved'', to prove that the King could consent to its abolition without breaking his [[Coronation Oath]]. In another tract he condemned the practise of [[Judicial astrology]].''' '''He left St Albans in 1647, being appointed preacher at [[St Faith under St Paul's]],<ref>''Athenae Oxonienses'', p. 64.</ref> a parish whose congregation (including many booksellers) met in a crypt within [[Old St Paul's Cathedral]] in London. His residence in February 1648 was in Ivy Lane, [[Paternoster Row]]. In London, as elsewhere, his sermons were largely attended by Puritans. He produced a fourth edition of [[William Fenner]]'s ''The Spirituall Mans Directorie'', with his own preface of recommendation, enlarged tables and notes for the illiterate.<ref>See full text, including Geree letter, at [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AfY7AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google] (open).</ref> His ''Case of Conscience'' had been answered, or 'sifted', by [[Edward Boughen]], to whom he rejoined with ''The Sifter's sieve broken'' in 1648. In the same year he introduced the publication of a tract from [[Thomas Shepard (minister)|Thomas Shepard]], formerly of [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]], who had emigrated to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] in 1635 to continue his ministry there.<ref>''Some select cases resolved : Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England'' (Printed by M. Simmons, for Iohn Rothwell, at the Sun and Fountain in Pauls Church-yard, London 1648). Full text at [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1gFmAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Google] (open).</ref> At the request of 'a godly Parliament-man' he preached against the drinking of healths.''' '''A sermon preached by Geree in May 1648 ''On the Bloodiness of War'', to persuade to peace, met with a response from certain 'left-eared orators' taking it as an aspersion upon the army, and was published in self-defence. He came into controversy with [[John Goodwin (preacher)|John Goodwin]], declaring that the seclusion and imprisoning of certain Parliament-men by the army was defensible neither by reason nor religion, and was answered by Goodwin and [[Samuel Richardson (Baptist)|Samuel Richardson]]. His advocacy of reform had steered a careful path away from rebellion: he died in February 1649, soon after the King's execution. It was reported by [[Richard Baxter]] that Geree was against the Parliament's war, and that 'he dyed at the news of the King's death.'<ref>R. Baxter, ''An apology for the nonconformists ministry: ... written in 1668, and 1669, for the most of it, and now published as an addition to the defence against Dr. Stillingfleet, and as an account to the silencers of the reasons of our practice'' (Printed for T. Parkhurst and D. Newman, London 1681), [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A26865.0001.001/1:3.5.28?rgn=div3;view=fulltext pp. 144-45] (Umich/eebo) (open).</ref> The Minister who preached his funeral oration told the brethren he was poor, and made a collection for his children.<ref>''Athenae Oxonienses'', II, p. 65.</ref> Geree entrusted their education to his wife, who survived him.<ref>Will of John Geree, Pastor of St Faith the Virgin, City of London (P.C.C. 1649).</ref>''' =='''Stephen Geree'''== '''In September 1627, Stephen Geree was appointed a licensed preacher throughout the dioceses of London, Lincoln, Gloucester and Coventry and Lichfield.<ref>CCEd Person ID: 69582.</ref> He was by then married to Margaret, their daughter being christened at [[St Margaret Moses]] in London in January 1627/8, but dying soon afterwards. In January 1628/9 a similar license was granted for the Winchester diocese, and for the parish of [[Wonersh]], near [[Guildford]], Surrey. There he was instituted, and subscribed, as Perpetual Vicar under the lay patronage of George Duncombe ([[armiger]]) of [[Albury, Surrey|Albury]]<ref>H.E. Maldon (ed.), 'Parishes: Albury' (Manor of Weston), ''A History of the County of Surrey'' Vol. 3 (V.C.H., London 1911), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp72-77 pp. 72-77.] (British History Online accessed 12 June 2016).</ref> at Christmas 1629.<ref>CCEd Appointment Record ID: 249668.</ref> Over the next ten years several of his children were christened at Wonersh.<ref>Anglican Parish Registers. Woking, Surrey, England: Surrey History Centre, Ref. WON/1/1.</ref>''' '''Geree was protected at Wonersh by his patron's influence, especially through Lady Elizabeth Aungier (daughter of [[Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford|Lord Francis Aungier]] of [[East Clandon]]<ref>J.E.M., 'Aungier, Francis (1558-1632), of Gray's Inn, London and East Clandon, Surr.; later of Longford and Dublin, Ireland', in P.W. Hasler, ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603'', (Boydell and Brewer, 1981). [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/aungier-francis-1558-1632 History of Parliament Online]</ref>), who by her first marriage to Simon Carryll (d. 1619), of Great Tangley Manor in Wonersh,<ref>H.E. Malden (ed.), 'Parishes: Wonersh', ''A History of the County of Surrey'', Vol. 3 (V.C.H., London 1911), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp121-127 pp. 121-27.] (British History Online accessed 11 June 2016)</ref> was Duncombe's sister-in-law.<ref>W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), ''The Visitations of the County of Surrey made and taken in the years 1530..., 1572... and 1623'', Harleian Society XLIII (1899), [https://archive.org/stream/visitationscoun01banngoog#page/n102/mode/2up pp. 88-89.] See also Duncombe's epitaph in Albury Church, in J. Aubrey, ''The Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey'' (E. Curll, London 1728), Vol. IV, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7KJbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q&f=false pp. 72-73, 75.]</ref> Their very extensive connections, not least at [[Hatchlands Park]], held their own position within the sphere of [[George More|More]] (of [[Loseley Park]]) and [[Richard Onslow (Parliamentarian)|Onslow]] (of [[Cranleigh]]) influence. As dowager of Tangley, Lady Elizabeth's remarriage in 1624/5 to John Machell<ref>Will of John Machell of Wonersh (P.C.C. 1647).</ref> brought affinity with his cousins [[Nathaniel Rich (merchant adventurer)|Sir Nathaniel Rich]] and [[Thomas Wroth (politician, 17th century)|Dame Margaret Wroth]], whose sister Dame Elizabeth Morgan died a parishioner at [[Chilworth, Surrey|Chilworth]] beside Wonersh in December 1632.<ref>Wills of Sir John Morgan of Chilworth (P.C.C. 1621), of Dame Elizabeth Morgan (P.C.C. 1633), and of Sir Nathaniel Rich (P.C.C. 1636). H.F. Waters, ''Genealogical Gleanings in England'', Vol II (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston 1901), [https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalglea02byuwate#page/870/mode/2up pp 871-74.]</ref> Lady Aungier's stepson Mathew Machell in 1635 married her daughter Elizabeth Carryll,<ref>W.H. Challen, 'John Machell, M.P., Horsham', ''Sussex Notes and Queries'' XVI (1964), pp. 114-121.</ref> who died of smallpox in 1639 leaving an infant son [[John Machell (MP for Horsham)|John Machell]]<ref>B.M. Crook, 'Machell, John (1637-1704), of Hills Place, Horsham, Suss.', in B.D. Henning (ed.), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690'' (Boydell and Brewer 1983), [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/machell-john-1637-1704 Read here]; P. Watson, 'Machell, John (1637-1704), of Hills Place, Horsham, Suss.', in D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks and S. Handley (eds), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715'' (Boydell & Brewer 2002). [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/machell-john-1637-1704 Read here]</ref> to inherit a considerable fortune which afterwards descended to the [[Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine|Viscounts of Irvine]] of [[Temple Newsam]] in [[Yorkshire]].''' '''In 1635 Geree, while being approved by these families, was reported to [[Archbishop Laud]]'s Visitor Sir [[Nathaniel Brent]] for refusing to read a declaration making it lawful for sports to be played on Sundays.<ref>'Registers and Vicars of the Parish', Wonersh Church, St John the Baptist, [http://www.wonershchurch.org.uk/Groups/227134/Vicars_of_the.aspx website.]</ref> On Easter Monday 1639 he took the occasion of Elizabeth Machell's death to make, and publish, an extensive funeral sermon, ''The Ornament of Women'', with a dedication<ref>''The ornament of women. Or, A description of the true excellency of women: Delivered in a sermon at the funerall of M. Elizabeth Machell, on Easter Munday being the 15. of April 1639. By Stephen Geree, minister of Gods Word at Wonnersh, neare Guildford in Surrey.'' (Printed by T. B[adger] for L. F[awne] and S. G[ellibrand] and are to be sold at the signe of the Brazen Serpent, in Pauls Church-Yard, London 1639). Read at [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PktpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false Google]. See also [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A01632.0001.001?view=toc Early English Books Online]</ref> showing his service to Lady Elizabeth, to her brother Gerard (2nd Baron of Longford) and her sister Lady [[Henry Holcroft|Letice Holcroft]].<ref>Wife of Sir Henry Holcroft, M.P., see V.C.D. Moseley and R. Sgroi, 'Holcroft, Sir Henry (c.1586-1650), of Long Acre, Westminster and Greenstreet House, East Ham, Essex' in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629'', (Cambridge University Press, 2010), [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/holcroft-sir-henry-1586-1650 History of Parliament online].</ref> However, from late 1640 a ten-year hiatus in the Wonersh register suggests some interruption to Geree's ministry there: but in 1644 he established his orthodoxy as a reformed minister in his tract ''The Doctrine of the Antinomians Confuted'' (an answer to [[Tobias Crisp]]), and in April 1645 the parsonage and cure of the parish church of Trinity in Guildford was sequestrated to him on the ejectment of Thomas Wall as a scandalous minister.<ref>A.R. Bax, 'The plundered ministers of Surrey', ''Surrey Archaeological Collections'' IX (1888), pp. 233-316, [https://archive.org/stream/surreyarchaeolo09surr#page/280/mode/2up at p. 280.]</ref>''' '''At the same time the minister of [[Abinger]] parish was deprived as scandalous (for preaching vehemently against parliament), and in 1646 Geree, having been scrutinized by the [[Assembly of Divines]], was put in to succeed the minister who temporarily replaced him.<ref>H.E. Malden, 'Notes: Abinger Registers,' ''Surrey Archaeological Collections'' XXX (1917), [https://archive.org/stream/surreyarchaeolog30surr_0#page/n149/mode/2up pp. 105-09.] Bax, 'Plundered ministers of Surrey', [https://archive.org/stream/surreyarchaeolo09surr#page/240/mode/2up pp. 235-241.]</ref> The [[advowson]] was customarily in the lords of the manor of Abinger, which was reunited in the possession of Richard Evelyn of [[Wotton, Surrey|Wotton]] in 1622, the moiety which had belonged to Sir John Morgan being sold to Evelyn by Morgan's daughter.<ref>H.E. Malden, 'Parishes: Abinger', ''A History of the County of Surrey'' Vol. 3 (V.C.H., London 1911), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp129-134 pp. 129-134.] (British History Online accessed 7 June 2016)</ref> [[George Evelyn (1617–1699)|George Evelyn]] (brother of [[John Evelyn]] the diarist) succeeded his father in 1641, having married a granddaughter of George Duncombe's.<ref>Will of Richard Evelyn (P.C.C. 1641): Evelyn calls Duncombe his 'brother-in-law' on that account.</ref> Duncombe died in 1647<ref>Will of George Duncombe of Albury Surrey (P.C.C. 1647). He and John Machell appointed each other as Executors, but both died in the same year.</ref> and Lady Elizabeth Aungier in 1650, in her will releasing Geree from whatever money he owed her, and giving £5 each to him and to his son John.<ref>Will of Elizabeth Machell of Wonersh, Surrey (P.C.C. 1650).</ref>''' '''Under that sustained familial patronage, Geree held Abinger for the rest of his life. His son Joseph was baptized there in 1647. He was encouraged by Thomas Hussey Sr. of [[Shere]], Surrey, and of London, citizen and [[Worshipful Company of Grocers|Grocer]].<ref>Will of Thomas Hussey of London (P.C.C. 1655).</ref> In an action reflecting the unusual times, at a vestry meeting in 1654 Geree assigned 35 square feet of land within Abinger church to Hussey, for him to build a pew beside the pulpit, on a 1000-year lease for peppercorn rent, by ensealed and witnessed deed.<ref>Malden, 'Notes: Abinger Registers,' pp. 108-09.</ref> Hussey was a grandson of [[Thomas Wroth (politician, 16th century)|Sir Thomas Wroth]] (1518-1573) and Mary Rich on his mother's side.<ref>J.J. Howard and J.L. Chester (eds), ''The Visitation of London Anno Domini 1632, 1633 and 1634'', Vol I, Harleian Society XV (1880), [https://archive.org/stream/visitationoflond15howa#page/406/mode/2up p.407.]</ref> Geree's last published work, ''The Golden Mean'', advocating the more frequent administration of the Lord's Supper, appeared in 1656. In the following year two of his sons, John (of Abinger) and Stephen (a Silkman in Soper Lane, London), were under observation as suspected persons when they came from Calais to collect a man lately prisoner in the [[Upper Bench]] and returned to France with him.<ref>A.R. Bax, 'Suspected persons in Surrey,' ''Surrey Archaeological Collections'' XIV (1899), pp. 164-89, [https://archive.org/stream/p2surreyarchaeol14surr#page/184/mode/2up at pp. 185-86.]</ref>''' '''On 26 September 1660 Geree conducted the marriage of Mr Francis Hamond to his daughter Elizabeth Geree. This occasion was chosen by [[E.M. Forster]] to exemplify the age of John Evelyn, in the fourth episode of the 1934 Abinger Pageant.<ref>Sunil Kumar Sarker, ''A Companion to E.M. Forster'', Vol 1, (Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2007), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4K7Ky8sT0gYC&pg=PA112#v=onepage&q&f=false pp. 112-13.]</ref> In 1662 Geree conformed. On 28 January 1664/5 his wife's burial took place, and on 9 February he followed her to the churchyard. John Geree, probably his son, was licensed as curate of [[Shalford, Surrey|Shalford]] in February 1667/8, instituted as Vicar of [[Farnham]] in 1669 and as Rector of East Clandon in March 1675/6.<ref>CCEd, Person ID: 93192.</ref> He may be the John Geary who matriculated from Magdalen Hall on 9 December 1653.<ref>J. Foster (ed.), ''Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714'', (Oxford, 1891), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp542-568 pp. 542-68.] (British History Online accessed 11 June 2016)</ref> Stephen Geree had numerous descendants.''' =='''Works'''== ==='''Works by John Geree'''=== * '''''A Catechisme in briefe questions and answers containing such things as are to be knowne or had by all such as would partake the Sacrament of the Lord's supper with comfort'' (Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield An. Dom. 1629).<ref>1647 printing, Text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A42650.0001.001?view=toc Umich/eebo] (Login only).</ref>''' * '''''The Down-Fall of Anti-Christ: or, the power of preaching to pull down Popery. In a briefe treatise on 2 Thessal.ii.8'' (R. Oulton for J. Bartlet; London 1641).<ref>See at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A85941.0001.001?view=toc Umich/eebo] (Login only).</ref>''' * '''''Judah's Joy at the Oath: layd out in a Sermon on 2 Chron. 15, 15. for England's example in embracing the Parliamentary Covenant with readiness and rejoycing,'' with ''Vindiciæ voti. Or a vindication of the true sense of the nationall covenant, in a briefe and moderate answere to the Protestation Protested : discovering the unsoundnesse of that interpretation of the covenant, and the weaknesse of the grounds there suggested for separate and independent churches. By Iohn Geree, master of arts, and preacher of Gods word in Tewkesbury. Published by the authority of the House of Commons.''(R. Oulton for J. Bartlet; London 1641).<ref>See at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A85950.0001.001?view=toc Umich/eebo] (Login only).</ref>''' * '''''Ireland's Advocate: or, a Sermon preached at a publicke fast held by authoritie, July the 27 in behalfe of bleeding Ireland'' (Dublin printed: repr. for William Bladen: London 1642).<ref>Full text at [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SItmAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Google] (open).</ref>''' * '''''Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ: or, ten cases resolved, which discover, that though there bee need of Reformation in, yet not of Separation from the Churches of Christ in England. Viz. The scandalous are to bee cast out. What persons are scandalous. They guilty that suffer the scandalous. The Jews had Excommunication. Separation from our churches not necessary. Separation without admonition cleers not. The fewer must yeeld to the greater number. Our churches true churches. Set formes of prayer lawfull. Baptisme of infants in Christs ordinance.'' (R. Cotes for Ralph Smith: London 1644).''' * '''''Vindiciæ Pædo-baptismi: or a vindication of Infant Baptism, in a full answer to Mr Tombs his Twelve Arguments alleaged against it in his Exercitation and whatsoever is rational, or material in his answer to Mr Marshals Sermon'' (J. Field for Christopher Meredith: London 1646).''' * '''''Astrologo-Mastix: or a discovery of the vanity and iniquity of Judiciall Astrology or divining by the starres the successe or miscarriage of humane affaires'' (M. Simmons, for J. Bartlet: London 1646). (Dedicated "To my very loving and beloved brother, Mr Stephen Geree, Preacher of the word at Guylford in Surrey").<ref>See at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A85938.0001.001?view=toc Umich/eebo] (Login only).</ref>''' * '''''The Character of an old English Puritane, or Non-Conformist'' (W. Wilson, for Christopher Meredith: London 1646).<ref>Text available at [http://www.reformedreader.org/character_of_an_old_english_puri.htm The Reformed Reader] website.</ref>''' * '''''A Case of Conscience Resolved. Wherein it is cleared that the king may without impeachment to his oath touching the clergy at coronation consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy. And the objections against it in two learned treatises, printed at Oxford, fully answered'' (M. Simmons for J. Bartlet: London 1646).''' * '''''Vindiciæ Vindiciarum: or a vindication of his Vindication of Infant-baptisme: from the exceptions of M. Harrison, in his Paedo-Baptisme Oppugned, and from the exceptions of M. Tombes, in his chief Digressions of his late Apology'' (A.M. for Christopher Meredith, London 1647).<ref>See at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A85949.0001.001?view=toc Umich/eebo] (Login only).</ref>''' * '''''Σινιοῤῥαγία. The Sifter's Sieve Broken, or a reply to Doctor Boughen's sifting my Case of Conscience touching the king's coronation oath: wherein is cleared that bishops are not jure divino'' (London: printed for Christopher Meredith, 1648).<ref>See at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A42657.0001.001?view=toc Umich/eebo] (Login only).</ref>''' * '''''Θειοφάρμακον. A Divine Potion to preserve spirituall health, by the cure of unnaturall health-drinking: Written for the satisfaction, and published by the direction, of a godly Parliament-Man'' (G. Latham: London 1648).''' * '''''Ἵππος Πυῤῥός, the Red Horse. Or the Bloodines of War: represented in a sermon (to perswade to peace) preached at Pauls, July 16. 1648, at five of the clocke in the afternoone. By Jo: Geree, M.A. and pastor of St Faiths under Pauls. And now published to cleare the preacher from malignancy imputed to him by some left-eared auditors''. (Printed for George Latham, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bishops-head in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1648).''' * '''''Truth's right-side turned upwards, or, Armies vindication against an aspersion of rebellion and tyrannie cast upon them, in several books, whereof one subscribed by divers ministers in the province of London, another by Mr Geree: not onely cleering the case of the armie to be just, but retorting the force of the arguments of their opposers upon themselves'' (Printed by James and Joseph Moxon, for William Larnar, London 1649). (Dedicated to [[Thomas Fairfax|Thomas, Lord Fairfax]] and his General Councel of Officers.)<ref>Full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A55528.0001.001?view=toc Umich/eebo] (open).</ref>''' * '''''Kαταδυνάστης: Might overcoming Right: or, a clear Answer to M. J. Goodwin's "Might and Right well met", Wherein is cleared, that the action of the Army in secluding many Parliament men from the place of their discharge of trust, and the imprisoning of some of them, is neither defensible by the rules of solid reason, nor religion'' (R. Bostock, London 1649).''' ==='''Works by Stephen Geree'''=== * '''''The ornament of women. Or, A description of the true excellency of women: Delivered in a sermon at the funerall of M. Elizabeth Machell, on Easter Munday being the 15. of April 1639. By Stephen Geree, minister of Gods Word at Wonnersh, neare Guildford in Surrey.'' (Printed by T. B[adger] for L. F[awne] and S. G[ellibrand] and are to be sold at the signe of the Brazen Serpent, in Pauls Church-Yard, London 1639).<ref>Read full text at [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PktpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false Google] (open).</ref>''' * '''''The doctrine of the Antinomians by evidence of Gods truth, plainely confuted. : In an answer to divers dangerous doctrines, in the seven first sermons of Dr. Crisps fourteen, which were first published. And are here declared to be as well anti-evangelicall as Antinomicall, absolutely overthrowing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and perverting the free-grace of God. By Stephen Geree, minister of Gods Word at Wonnersh neare Guilford in Surrey.'' (Printed by R.C. for H. Blunden, at the Castle in Corn-hill, London 1644).''' * '''''The golden mean: being some serious considerations, together with some cases of conscience resolved; for a more full, and frequent administration of, yet not free admission unto, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By Stephen Geree, minister of God's word, and pastor of the Church of Abinger in the county of Surrey'' (Printed for Joseph Cranford, and are to be sold at the Kings head in St Pauls Church Yard, London 1656).<ref>See at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A85952.0001.001?view=toc Umich/eebo] (Login only).</ref>''' =='''References'''== {{reflist|30em}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Geree, John}} [[Category:1600s births]] [[Category:1649 deaths]] [[Category:17th-century English Anglican priests]] [[Category:English Jacobean nonconforming clergy]]'